My sister Talia's band the Ice Cream Socialists is on NPR!
In fact, they're even available on iTunes. How cool is that?

I just read an interesting article in Wired magazine on the so-called "new atheism" --- an evangelical atheism, in which non-believers proselityze a cult of reason to the god-stricken masses. (I'm bastardizing their terminology here, to give you an idea of what the article is like). The article is told in the first person about the author's ( Read more... )

Hello sweet nothings

I could write excuses for not writing for so long, but we all know they're paltry. Things are pretty good. I go to class, I go to work, I go to my other work, I go to my other work, I go to meetings, I occasionally sleep and see Jason and my friends and do fun things.

Par ejemplo: Poetry reading chez ( Read more... )

Ugh why am I so depressed?

Blsdklfklshshsghgs.

How to dream a little love(

In stage one, the alpha waves depart the chart (the needle attached to your eyes via purple slurpee straw records this every movement). Environmental awareness recedes and perhaps you jerk a little if you s

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Today I was handygirl! I ( Read more... )

An article on passport technology. By the end of the year, the government will be putting chips in everyone's passport that enables the data to be retrieved from a digital reader. Yes, there are some security precautions, but this article argues that they are not nearly enough. And certainly they are not enough to withstand the ten years that a ( Read more... )

My LJ friends page is my homepage, so I look at it quite frequently. Often I think to myself, "I should update." And then I ponder all the time required to do so, and I put it off til tomorrow. Repeat for several weeks, then finally muster up ability to write ( Read more... )

A NY Times article I read the other day talks about how teenagers are using super high-pitched ring tones to use their cell phones to text message during classes. Most people lose their ability to hear such high frequencies with age, making this the perfect cheat-the-teacher tactic du jour.

Here's a clip of the sound courtesy of npr: squeal meI ( Read more... )

The best thing about crying is that my eyes turn green like they were when I was very young. Now they are brown-green hazel (some days mostly brown), but when I cry I like to think they show their true colors.